Auctioneers

The last Jean-Jacques Rousseau herbarium in private hands came for sale at Ader in Paris on June 17.

Ada Augusta Lovelace (1815-52), the only daughter of Lord Byron, is today justly celebrated as a mathematician and computer pioneer.

Near-complete version of a work on a grandiose scale that caused its author’s ruin comes to Chicago saleroom

Most Tudor and Stuart embroidered bindings that have survived from the 16th and 17th century cover Bibles, prayerbooks, and other devotional texts.

Bury St Edmunds might not be the most obvious place to find pieces of Filipino modernism.

The final tranche of items from the Tony Chapman collection of pewter offered at Bishop & Miller of Stowmarket on June 19 included this capacious Victorian lidded jug once owned by Charles Dickens (1812-70).

Prior to the Poisons and Pharmacy Act of 1908, there was no legal requirement that a bottle containing poison should carry a warning.

I have frequently locked horns with auction houses over their increasing postage costs.

Pictures by two leading women of the Modern British art movement sold strongly at a Lyon & Turnbull (26/25/20% buyer’s premium) auction in London.

Most people will be familiar with Charlie Ross due to his garrulous presence on TV screens for many years, across several BBC antiques programmes.

Irish art sales rated as ‘very good’ despite some supply challenges as private collectors wait to consign

A number of strong performers stood out in a variety of individual pieces offered in Bamfords’ (24.75% buyer’s premium) large four-day auction

June 2, 1878, began as a normal day in the varied life of the German artist Adolph von Menzel.

This recently discovered example of the iconic Bauhaus tea-infuser, designed by Marianne Brandt in 1924, on offer at Lempertz on May 15 for €200,000, was knocked down to the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Museum for Art and Industry) for €260,000 (£222,220).

The list of Polar exploration ships once lost but now rediscovered grew in number recently when it was announced the Quest had been located.